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                    This is not to say that there aren't serious concerns with the Google Book settlement. James Grimmelman wrote a fantastic piece back in November, Principles and Recommendations for the Google Book Search Settlement, that should be required reading for anyone trying to understand just what the settlement means and how it could be improved upon:<br />
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Summary of principles and recommendations (hyperlinks take you back to the section of the document that discusses them)<br />
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P0: The settlement should be approved<br />
R0: Approve the settlement.<br />
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P1: The Registry poses an antitrust problem<br />
R1: Put library and reader representatives on the Registry’s board.<br />
R2: Require the Registry to sign an antitrust consent decree.<br />
R3: Give future authors and publishers the same deal as current ones.<br />
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P2 If it didn’t already, Google poses an antitrust problem<br />
R4: Strike the most-favored-nations clause.<br />
R5: Allow Google’s competitors to offer the same services the settlement allows Google to offer, with the same obligations.<br />
R6: Authorize the Registry to negotiate on copyright owners’ behalf with Google’s competitors.<br />
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P3: Enforce reasonable consumer-protection standards<br />
R7: Prohibit Google from price discriminating in individual book sales.<br />
R8: Insert strict guarantees of reader privacy.<br />
R9: Protect readers from being asked to waive their rights as a condition of access.<br />
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P4: Make the public goods generated by the project truly public<br />
R10: Require that Google’s database of in-print/out-of-print information be made public.<br />
R11: Require that the Registry’s database of copyright owner information be made public.<br />
R12: Require the use of standard APIs, open data formats, and (for metadata) unrestricted access.<br />
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P5: Require accountability and transparency<br />
R13: Require that Google inform the public when it excludes a book for editorial reasons.<br />
R14: Tighten up the definition of “non-editorial reasons” for excluding a book.<br />
R15: Allow any institution ready, willing, and able to participate in scanning books to do so.<br />
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I'd add to those recommendations one more: book search should work like web search. That is, because of the powers given to Google under this settlement, Google searches should be required to present and rank results from all electronic copies of books that are available online, not giving preference to the copies in their own archives.<br />
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I stand by my assertion that Google Book Search is good for publishers, authors, and the reading public. While the settlement does give Google what seems to be unprecedented power over the market for out-of-print but not out-of-copyright books, I'm not sure that market matters all that much to publishers, and it matters a LOT to the public. And in any event:<br />
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If there is significant value to be derived from these &quot;under copyright but out of print&quot; books, GBS will bring that value to the surface, and will then get those works on the radar of those who own those rights (if those rightsholders still exist.) Those parties can then start to exploit those rights through other available channels.<br />
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If there is no rights-holder to be found, we're no worse off than we were before, since there was no way of recognizing that economic value anyway. So the GBS settlement is worse, say, than just reducing the length of copyright, or requiring regular re-registration to keep books in copyright, letting those that are orphaned go more quickly into the public domain, but it's not worse than the situation before the settlement, in which no one but google was spending the money to digitize these works anyway.<br />
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There are no fewer incentives to digitize valuable works than there were before, and one can argue that GBS will bring to light works that will then become available to competing digital channels in ways that wouldn't have happened without the settlemen.</span><br />
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